In the weeks leading up to the inauguration of the Ram Mandir (temple of Ram) in Ayodhya on January 22, saffron flags dotted streets, marketplaces, and private balconies across the north Indian city.
What is the role of violence in Hinduism? Towards whom is the violence directed? Suddenly, the air in which we breathe has thickened with a language that that has yoked Hinduism together with ...
On February 5, the Express newspaper pub­­lished a front-page photo of a woman in a Car­­­­­­­nival costume which to those familiar with Sana­tan Dharma, depicted the great Goddess Kali. This photo ...
New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that if the Indian Constitution was drafted by the BJP government with illustrations of Hindu iconography, as it was done in 1950, there would ...
Pune based artist Madhavi Joshi is exhibiting her art entitled Uurdhva at Art Walk Gallery, Nariman Point, Mumbai from July 3 to 16. Her paintings depict the Hindu iconography and show a bent towards ...
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here on Wednesday that if a BJP government had illustrated the Constitution with Hindu iconography, there would have been a hue and cry, but it was not found ...
A reference book on festivals observed by ‘Indians’, prescribed by the State government for school libraries across the State, carries in it only those observed by Hindus. While 30 pages of ...
Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes, illus. by Sanjay Patel. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0362-4 “Ganesha is a Hindu god. He’s very important and powerful. And a tad chubby,” begins this stylish ...